Exploratory Visits
The Shoah Memorial offers a new device on the sites of Paris and Drancy.
The students discover a singular theme in two stages:
duration: 1 h 15
- The exploration of a subject during an activity launch
duration: 1 h 15
PROPOSED THEMES
The Nazi worldview
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
This activity focuses on the victims of Nazi persecution.
Themes: Nazism, anti-gypsyism, homophobia, antisemitism, operation T4, political opponents, resistance.
Historical period: World War II.
Supports: Archival documents, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial. activity in the room Discovery and analysis of documents by small groups then restitution.
Lights in the night: routes of Righteous among nations – novelty
From December 1, 2025
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Themes: Resistance, commitments, rescue, risks, memories.
Historical period: World War II.
Media: Book excerpts, archival documents, press articles, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity: in the room Guided discussion, question-and-answer game on the paths of European Righteous and restitution by group.
They were 13,000: route of the Vel d'Hiv – new
From December 1, 2025
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Themes: Vel d'Hiv, roundups, memoirs, Righteous of France, deportations, hidden children.
Historical periods: World War II, history of the present time.
Media: Photographs, letters, administrative documents, video extracts, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity: in the room Discovery and analysis of documents by small groups then restitution.
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld: the fighters of memory – novelty
From December 1, 2025
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Themes: History, memoirs, justice, microhistory, post-war Germany.
Historical periods: World War II, contemporary history.
Materials: Family and administrative archives, testimonies, video extracts.
Activity: in the room Discovery and analysis of documents by small groups then restitution.
Images of the Shoah on the screen
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Themes: Representation of the genocide, testimony, cinematographic language (animation, documentary, fiction film).
Media: Film extracts, press articles, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity in the cinema Analysis of film clips.
Genocides and places of memory
For students in the final year
Themes: Recognition and memories of the Holocaust, the genocides of the Gypsies, the Armenians and the Tutsis.
Historical period: 20th century.
Media: The places of memory of the Shoah Memorial, photographs, press articles.
Activity: in the room Discovery and analysis of documents by small groups then restitution.
The end of the Holocaust and the Nazi concentration camp universe. Survive, testify, judge (1944-1948) – CNRD / NOVELTY
From January 2026
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Themes: Testimonies, justice, memories, camps, genocide, crimes against humanity.
Materials: Archival documents, written, audio and visual testimonies, trials.
Activity: in the room Discovery and analysis of documents by small groups then restitution.
Words about one’s ills: literary journey – novelty
From December 1, 2025
For students from 9th grade to 12th grade
Themes: Literature, Jewish cultures, antisemitism, Auschwitz-Birkenau, resistance, memories.
Historical periods: World War II, contemporary history.
Media: Literary excerpts (Joseph Joffo, Aharon Appelfeld, Charlotte Delbo...), testimonies, sound clips, archives (photographs, administrative documents).
Activity: in the room Corpus of texts given to each student, reading and analysis in the permanent exhibition.
